RESOURCES FOR HISTORY BUFFS

Steven Browne Anne Shaughnessy

April 4, 2012 Program goals:

• Describe the types of history resources available online • Take guided tours of following resources: • Salem History • Ancestry Library Edition • Gale Virtual Reference Library • Tribune Historical • Daily Herald Archives • Encyclopedia of Chicago • Digital Archives • American Memory

Salem History Salem History

• Electronic versions of print reference books published by Salem Press • Covers American business, 20th century by decade, sports, music, prominent people, and significant documents • Biographical search is available • Material may be searched or browsed • Entries can be printed, emailed or saved General search: Prohibition People search: Al Capone Ancestry Library Edition Ancestry Library Edition

• Library version of Ancestry.com • Mostly for genealogists but many resources are useful for history buffs • Some full text entries are available • Can be used only in the Library • Easiest ways to search are via the Card Catalog and through the category “Stories & Histories” ALE: Card Catalog ALE: Stories & Histories Gale Virtual Reference Library History eBook Collection GVRL History eBook Collection Find articles in real reference books even when Library is closed! Read on computer or download to mobile device. Email it to yourself or print it. Browse other articles in the reference book. Examples of GVRL Titles

• Art and Humanities through the Ages • American Men and Women of Science • Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms • Americans at War • Colonial America Reference Library • Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict • Chernobyl • Encyclopedia of India • Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture ProQuest Historical : (1849-1988) ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1988) • Search every issue from 1849 through 1988 • Good for world, national, and local history • Social history – fashion, recipes, lifestyles, crime • Narrow searches to articles, obituaries, classifieds, movie reviews, editorials, “photo standalone”…. • View the whole page and leaf through entire issues. • Search for street addresses (example “2317 Foster” or “23** Foster”) • Old fashioned spellings (“clew” and “altho”)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1988) Daily Herald Archives Daily Herald Archives

• Collection of Daily Herald issues from 1901-2007 (1.9 million pages) • Search by keyword or date • Browse single issue • Not a perfect database; results often problematic • Can only be used in the library Daily Herald Archives Search: Kensington Center/Rauenhorst Daily Herald search: Fickert, 1974 American Memory from the Library of Congress American Memory

• http://memory.loc.gov/ • Access written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. • “List view” or “gallery view” available

American Memory Encyclopedia of Chicago Encyclopedia of Chicago

• http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/ • Full text of print edition of the landmark encyclopedia • Content not in book – maps, articles • Thousands of historical resources including illustrations, photographs, maps, videos. • Both lengthy essays and short entries.

Encyclopedia of Chicago Illinois Digital Archives (www.idaillinois.org/cdm) Illinois Digital Archives

• Statewide digital archive of photographs, books, postcards, posters, and manuscripts • All materials deal with history of some area in Illinois • Coordinated by the Illinois State Library • Started in 2000 • 85 libraries and cultural institutions from across Illinois participate • Significant topics: Abraham Lincoln, World War I and II, African-American history • Collections may be searched or browsed • Similar collections for other states and countries exist online. IDA: Mount Prospect collections For further assistance

• Come to the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the Library • Call the Reference Desk at 847-590-4050 • Email the Reference Desk [email protected] • Make an appointment with a Reference Librarian • Chat with a Reference Librarian (link is on the Research and Reference page of the Library website www.mppl.org/research